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I’ve only had Aussie’s but, back when I didn’t have a dog there were a bunch of Corgi’s at the barn where I rode and worked some. My experience is the the Aussie’s tend to be higher energy and the Corgi’s tended to have stronger opinions. :lol: YMMV. ;)[/QUOTE]
:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
Love both breeds, but (insert disclaimer here)…
I’m a Corgi mom. He has a high herding “instinct”, with a well-controlled drive/urge, he will down stay. He is in the house, by himself, unattended for about 10 hours a day, is not neurotic, does not chew, and never has any accidents in the house. He has not been in a crate since he was about 3 months old, when he decided that just wasn’t working for him and he learned to navigate the stairs.
Corgis are the most intelligent, adaptable little buggers I’ve ever met, and I’ve known several, good in nearly any environment, except the desert. Aussies tend to need the “out and active lifestyle”, very smart dogs, just more “specialty” type dogs.
In both breeds, I’m talking about well bred dogs from reputable breeders, not in-bred stuff bred for small sizes or colors.
All this said, Corgi’s are a lot like pot bellied pigs, you’ll never see a thin one, they are very clever about getting us to meet all their needs and wants.
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All this said, Corgi’s are a lot like pot bellied pigs, you’ll never see a thin one, they are very clever about getting us to meet all their needs and wants.[/QUOTE]
I’m really really hoping what someone here said was true, that they’re breeding for bigger dogs for the conformation ring nowdays with Pembrokes. Otherwise, Tucker is TWO corgis. (She was fat when she was in the shelter, she’s been fat ever since. And she is utterly convinced I am STARVING HER TO DEATH.)
And while she does, most of the time, listen, she is selectively deaf. She’s started to obey when i call her off the neighborhood calico, but if she hears the little kids next door? Bam. Gone.
I absolutely love the descriptions of peoples’ corgis in here! They all sound like mine! :lol: Selective hearing, opinionated, bossy. Mine are like benevolent dictators!
My male is huge…my friend describes him as a German Shepard on little legs- big head, big ears, big teeth, big bark!
At 40lbs and ribby, he’s a very efficent calorie burner. He can scarf down a 10lb bag off limits Mrs. Pastures or a small bag of cat chow from the barn and be back at his normal weight within 3 days.
My female is a tiny thing, just 25 lbs and she’s a little air fern…she looks at food and gets a belly…just like her owner. :o
Re: feeding Corgis - our little 35 pound air fern female outweighs our (tall, long-legged) lab/whippet mix. Just like my sister’s old 14.1 Doc O Mos quarter horse, she gets “just enough food that she can hear it rattling around.”
Mine’s not small. She’s about 33lbs and has a waist line. She gets 1 cup of Taste of the Wild a day (split into two meals). If she’s super active that day (like the day she spent about 3 hours at the lake and swam most of it lol) I may give her an extra quarter cup. She’s is definitely of the larger variety of pembrokes.
yeah… my two are on two 1/2 cup feedings of the weight control healthwise a day. THAT’S IT and they get one carrot nub at lunchtime and one small breed milkbone before bed. They’re pretty active little buggers (one cannot be a good dictator without dictating and monitoring all that goes on in your kingdom) my larger one is 38lbs and my smaller one is 34. They should be 27 and 29. Yeah… not happening in this lifetime.
Bossy, bouncy, independent, obstinate, cheerful, busybody, clownish, and LOYAL little sh**s for sure! They’re laying at my feet as I’m typing this… actually to be more precise they’re laying ON my feet. I have a corgi head on each foot. God forbid I have to move… (unless it’s to the cupboard and the box of wheat thins of course…) Yep, my life will always contain corgi. 
I was just curious about the aussies…
If I actually wanted to herd sheep, I’d think about Aussies or Border Collies. I think if I had Tucker try to herd, she might do it, but she’d put the sheep where she thought they ought to go.
Hah, 40lb corgis, Casey is about 42-43 when he is in fighting weight and 47lbs when he was a tad chubby or when he was younger and fit. As I like to say, he’s an “old style” corgi. And he sincerely has the coolest, happiest puppy face even as he is fast approaching 12.
(what’s sad is the 22lb Maine Coon Cat is not overweight and bigger/taller than he is).
Corgis CAN fly!
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3242/2933008492_020d6bc47d_b.jpg
DMK that’s not flying! That’s using the corgi mind trick to hover to the food without actually having to walk there… ;-p
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